The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
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We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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